Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge, Mrs. Coolidge, John Coolidge, two white collies, two chows, Rebecca Raccoon arrived in Washington. At the station to meet the Presidential party were Cabinet Members Mellon, Kellogg, Jardine and Sargent. After handshakes and animal pat-tings, the Coolidges and their companions got into several limousines and swept rapidly through the Capital. Rob Roy, veteran collie, disturbed the ride with bounds, plunges, whines; shedding his white hair on formal apparel, then, he pressed his cold nose against the glass, to get a first glimpse of the White House. Arriving, he bolted down the corridor, into the elevator; jumped...
Within are stories about Coolidge, Carnegie, John Singer Sargent, Roosevelt, Mrs. Ogden Reid; a facsimile manuscript of Kipling's "If"; snatches from famous biographies; answers to questions about how to get a job and succeed in it by Ford, Joseph C. Grew, Ethel Barrymore...
Millicent, dowager Duchess of Sutherland, strode up to the locked door of Memorial Hall in Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, knocked imperatively. Wet-eyed, she begged attendants to be allowed to see "The Lady in the Green Dress," by John Singer Sargent. She said: "I am sailing for England . . . must see the picture once more. . . . That portrait was made for me. ... I had to sell it." Attendants let the grey-haired Duchess gaze for five minutes upon herself as she looked 20 years...
...Beerbohm caricatured the queue of fashionables awaiting a sitting at Sargent's door and Sargent grew to say "paughtraits" in mock disgust. The Boston Library and Harvard gave him splendid scope for his genius on their walls. Yet for "paughtraits" he continued most famous. His President Wilson fetched $50,000. Some day, perhaps, his landscapes will bring the like. He was an outdoor man, a sketcher in the Alps, Tyrol, Rockies. Pre-Raphaelitism, or any ism omitting the air and light or nature, were incomprehensible...
...John Sargent died in 1923, reading peacefully one evening in his London bed. An artist who transplanted a half-acre of roses for a garden picture, and carried a stuffed gazelle about Europe for another work, he was painstaking. A Victorian who said, "Ruskin, don t you know-rocks and clouds-silly old thing", he had critical independence. An observer who called English trees "old Victorian ladies going perpetually to church in a land where it is always Sunday afternoon," he was more whimsy-realistic than imaginative. An artist who, to fasten the attention of a restless, primitive Spanish model...